Just because you have the technology to do something doesn’t mean that it is a good idea.
Nobodies lives will be improved by having a dossier on every American, forcing almost everybody to carry ID cards, registering and licensing everything, monitoring all our communications, having surveillance cameras everywhere, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.
Most importantly, when governments do such things, it shows that they feel impotent and inefficient about the big things government is supposed to do. So they focus on the petty and unimportant. They become a nanny state. And they spend all their time nattering at the people.
How much of the federal government is utterly superfluous? 20%, 30%, even 50%?
“Ask not what your government can do for you. Ask your government to stop doing most of what it is doing.”
Maybe as a nation we need to go bankrupt for government to learn that it is not God, nor should it try to be God.
Maybe then will they learn to live within their means, and that the government that governs least, governs best. It is an old lesson, but was never more true.
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Let's all fly off into an anarchistic, irrelevant panic mode, shall we?
WTH does the application of improved overhead imagery (from space, no less) have to do with any of the above dumb@$$ rant?
I dislike and disapprove of most of our bloated, intrusive government's activities as much as anyone here. BUT, such over-the-top, knee-jerk, off-topic rhetoric reflects badly on all of us here at FR. It only gives the lefties opportunities to paint us as a bunch of "right-wing crazies".
I, for one, would welcome improved domestic georeferenced data - especially LIDAR data that stands to improve the present 30-meter DEM (Digital Elevation Model) by orders of magnitude.
Read the articles and post on topic.